HP: multitouch on notebooks before Windows 7

Posted on Friday, June 13 2008 @ 3:40 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

HP says you won't have to wait until 2010 when Windows 7 arrives to enjoy multitouch on notebooks:

By all accounts, HP hopes to bring this technology to notebooks. Kevin Frost, general manager of the consumer notebook division, expects it to reach laptops long before the launch of Windows 7 (two years or so from now). Kevin Wentzel, technical marketing manager, agrees, but he says the obstacle lies in developing suitable software– not hardware– for notebooks.

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